Mary Kissel

Mary Kissel is a senior executive and foreign policy expert with more than two decades of experience advising political leaders, CEOs, and institutional investors on geopolitics, markets, and strategy. She is vice chairman of RXO, Inc., and a director of Cadre Holdings, Inc., HEYCO Energy Group, Inc., and QXO, Inc. She is also a nonresident senior fellow at Hudson Institute. Previously, Ms. Kissel founded and led the policy advisory practice for Stephens, Inc., a privately held financial services firm. From 2018 to 2021, Ms. Kissel was senior advisor to the U.S. Secretary of State, where she advised the Secretary on major foreign policy initiatives, led high-priority projects across the department, and represented the U.S. in more than 60 countries and in multilateral fora. She was instrumental in the reorientation of U.S.-China relations and the 2021 genocide designation against China’s Communist Party. Earlier, Ms. Kissel spent 14 years on The Wall Street Journal editorial board in New York and as editorial page editor for Asia-Pacific in Hong Kong. Ms. Kissel is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a director of the American Australian Council. She is a graduate of Harvard University and Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies.